The Delhi Water Board Act, 1998

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    "slug": "the-delhi-water-board-act-1998",
    "title": "The Delhi Water Board Act, 1998",
    "short_title": "The Delhi Water Board Act, 1998",
    "act_number": "Delhi Act 4 of 1998",
    "act_year": 1998,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": "1998-04-02",
    "description": "The Delhi Water Board Act, 1998",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
    "sections": [
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "CHAPTER I",
            "chapter": "CHAPTER I",
            "content": "Preliminary",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"Administrator\" means the Administrator of the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi;\n(b) \"Board\" means the Delhi Water Board established under sub-section (1) of section 3 and includes any member, officer or employee of the Board to whom the Board may delegate its powers under section 22;\n(c) \"Cantonment area\" means the area within the limits of Delhi Cantonment as defined by the notifications of Central Government under section 3 of Cantonment Act, 1924;\n(d) \"Central Ground Water Authority\" means the Central Ground Water Authority constituted under section 3 (3) of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986);\n(e) \"charges\" includes any rates, tariff, duty, cess, deposits, rentals, surcharge, development charges or any other charges levied by the Board or payable to it;\n(f) \"Delhi\" means the National Capital Territory of Delhi;\n(g) \"Delhi Cantonment Board\" means the body corporate having perpetual succession and common seal as incorporated under sections 10 and 11 of the Cantonment Act, 1924 (Central Act 2 of 1924);\n(h) \"Delhi Development Authority\" means the Delhi Development Authority established under section 3 of the Delhi Development Authority Act, 1957 (Central Act 61 of 1957) and includes any successor body thereto;\n(i) \"Delhi Electric Supply Undertaking\" means the undertaking of that name established under the provisions of the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957 (Central Act 66 of 1957) and includes any successor body thereto;\n(j) \"departmental charges\" means the charges fixed by the Board for defraying its establishment and overhead costs in respect of any work;\n(k) \"development\" means the carrying out of building, engineering, mining or other operations in, on, over or under land or the making of any material change in any building or land and includes redevelopment;\n(l) \"development charges\" means charges to defray the cost incurred by the Board in initially providing any service to any premises or group of premises or for augmenting such service and includes departmental charges;\n(m) \"drain\" includes a sewer, a house drain, or a drain of any other description, a tunnel, a culvert, a ditch, a channel or any other device for carrying of sewage, offencive matter, polluted water, waste water, but not designed to carry rain water or subsoil water;\n(n) \"fittings\" includes any pipe, taps, cocks, valves, ferrules, meters, cisterns, baths and other similar apparatus used in connection with the supply and use of water or for the carrying of, collection, treatment or disposal of sewage;\n(o) \"Government\" means, the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi;\n(p) \"industrial effluent\" means effluent which is not sewage and includes environmental pollutants in the form of solid, liquid or gaseous substances present in such concentration as may be injurious to the environment, to human beings, or other living creatures, including plants or micro-organisms or to property;\n(q) \"Legislative Assembly\" means the Legislative Assembly of the National Capital Territory of Delhi;\n(r) \"licensed plumber\" means a plumber who has been temporarily permitted to operate as licensed plumber in any area of the Board or by any erstwhile body substituted by the Board and will include a licensed plumber who will be licensed by the Board in accordance with the regulations made in this regard;\n(s) \"local authority\" includes the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, New Delhi Municipal Council, the Delhi Development Authority, the Delhi Cantonment Board, or any succession body to any of them and any other statutory authority performing municipal functions;\n(t) \"main\" means a pipe laid by the Board for the purpose of giving a general supply of water as distinct from a supply to individual consumers and includes any apparatus used in connection with such a pipe upto the ferrule;\n(u) \"Military Engineering Services\" means an organisation dedicated to provide infrastructural support to the Defence Services and other users under the Ministry of Defence;\n(v) \"Municipal Corporation\" means the Municipal Corporation of Delhi established under section 3 of the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957 (Central Act 66 of 1957) and includes any successor body or bodies thereto;\n(w) \"municipal drain\" means any drain under the control or formerly under the control of a local authority:\n(x) \"New Delhi Municipal Council\" means the New Delhi Municipal Council established under the New Delhi Municipal Act, 1994 (Central Act 44 of 1994) and includes any successor body or bodies thereto;\n(y) \"occupier\" in relation to any premises includes\n(i) any person who for the time being is paying or is liable to pay to the owner the rent or any portion of the rent of the premises in respect of which such rent is paid or is payable;\n(ii) an owner in occupation of, or otherwise using, such land or building;\n(iii) a rent free tenant of such land or building; (iv) a licensee in occupation; and\n(v) any person who is liable to pay to the owner damages for the use and occupation of such land or building;\n(z) \"owner\" means a person who for the time being is receiving, or is entitled to receive, the rent of any land or building whether on his own account or on account of himself and other or as an agent, trustee, guardian or receiver for any other person or who should so receive the rent or be entitled to receive it if the land or building or part thereof were let to a tenant and also includes\n(i) the Custodian of Evacuee Property in respect of evacuee property vested in him under the Administration of Evacuee Property Act, 1950 (Central Act 31 of 1950).\n(ii) the Director of Estates in the Central Government, the Secretary of the Delhi Development Authority, constituted under the Delhi Development Act, 1957 (Central Act 61 of 1957), the General Manager of a Railway and the Head of a Government department, in regard to properties under their respective control;\n(aa) \"premises\" means any land or building or part of a building and includes\n(i) the garden, grounds and out-houses, if any, appertaining to a building or part of a building; and\n(ii) any fittings affixed to a building or part of building;\n(ab) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules, framed by the Government under section 108;\n(ac) \"Railway administration\", in relation to\n(i) A Government Railway means the General manager of a Zonal Railway; and\n(ii) A non-Government Railway means the person who is the owner or lessee of the Railway or the person working for the Railway under an agreement;\n(ad) \"regulation\" means regulation made by the Board under section 109; (ae) \"reside\"\n(i) a person shall be deemed to \"reside\" in any dwelling house which or some portion of which he sometimes, whether uninterruptedly or not, uses as a sleeping apartment; and\n(ii) a person shall not be deemed to cease to \"reside\" in such dwelling house merely because he is absent from it or has elsewhere another dwelling house in which he resides, if there is the liberty of returning to it any time and no abandonment of the intention of returning to it;\n(af) \"rule\" means a rule made by the Government under this Act by notification in the Official Gazette;\n(ag) \"sewage\" means night-soil and other contents of water closets, latrines, privies, cess pools or drains, and waste water or other normal effluent from shafts, kitchens, bathrooms, stables, cattle sheds and other like places but excludes cow-dung;\n(ah) \"sewer\" means any device for carrying of sewage;\n(ai) \"sewerage\" means a system of sewers for collection, treatment or disposal of sewage and includes sewerage work;\n(aj) \"sewerage work\" means any sewer channel, duct, collection, treatment and disposal unit, pumping station engine, mobile collecting unit and other machinery and any adjacent land not being private property and any land, building or other thing for the collection or treatment or disposal of sewage;\n(ak) \"street\" means any way, road, lane, square, court, alley, passage, whether a thoroughfare or not and whether built upon or not, over which the public have a right of way and also the roadway or footway over any bridge or causeway;\n(al) \"telegraph authority\" means the authority as defined under section 3 (6) of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 (13 of 1885);\n(am) \"telegraph line\" means a wire or wires for the purpose of a telegraph as defined in the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 (13 of 1885);\n(an) \"trunk main\" means a main constructed for the purpose of _ conveying water from a source of supply to a reservoir or from a rreservoir to another reservoir or for the purpose of conveying water, in bulk from one part of the limits of supply to another part of those limits or for the purpose of giving or taking a supply of water in bulk;\n(ao) \"water works\" means any source of water supply like a stream, lake, spring, river, or canal, well, reservoir, cistern and tank, dug well, bore well, dug-cum-bore well, tubewell, ranny well, filter points and infiltration galleries, any channel, duct, whether converted or open, desalination plants, treatment units, sluice or supply main, culvert, bridge, engine, water tank, hydrant, stand pipe or post, conduit and machinery and any adjacent land not being private property and any land, building or other thing for supplying water or for protecting a source of water supply and pipe or for treatment of water.",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "CHAPTER II",
            "chapter": "CHAPTER II",
            "content": "Constitution Of Delhi Water Board",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Constitution of the Board.",
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            "content": "(i) A Chairperson who shall be the Minister Incharge of the subject matter of the Government and a Vice Chairperson to be nominated by Speaker from amongst members as per clause 2 (iii).\n(ii) A Chief Executive Officer to be nominated by the Government who shall be an officer drawing pay in the scale not less than that of a Joint Secretary to the Government of India.\n(iii) Three members of the Legislative Assembly of the National Capital Territory of Delhi to be nominated by the Speaker.\n(iv) Two members of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to be nominated by the Mayor.\n(v) The Commissioner of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, ex-officio. (vi) The Chairperson of the New Delhi Municipal Council, ex-officio. (vii) A member (Water Supply) to be nominated by Government who shall be an engineer, drawing pay in the scale not less than that of a Joint Secretary to the Government of India, having specialised knowledge and experience in the matters relating to water supply.\n(viii) A member (Drainage) to be nominated by Government who shall be an engineer, drawing pay in the scale not less than that of a joint Secretary to the Government of India, having specialised knowledge and experience in the matters relating to drainage.\n(ix) A member (Finance) to be nominated by Government drawing pay in the scale not less than that of a Joint Secretary to the Government of India having specialised knowledge and practical experience of accounting and financial matters.\n(x) A member (Administration) to be nominated by Government drawing pay in the scale not less than that of a joint Secretary to the Government of India, having specialised knowledge and practical experience of personnel and administrative matters.\n(xi) Secretary Incharge of the Department of the Government dealing with the Board, ex-officio.\n(xii) A representative of the Ministry of Urban Affairs and Employment, Government of India who shall not be below the rank of Joint Secretary to the Government of India, to be nominated by the Central Government.\n(xiii) One representative of the Delhi Cantonment Board, preferably an elected representative of the Delhi Cantonment Board, to be nominated by its President.\n(xiv) A representative of the Central Ground Water Authority who shall not be below the rank of a Chief Engineer, to be nominated by the Central Government.\n4.",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Non-participation of a member if he holds interest in any firm, etc.",
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            "content": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Incorporation of the Board.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Appointment of staff.",
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            "content": "",
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            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Water Consultative Council.",
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            "content": "(i) to advise the Board on policy matters and formulation of annual and five year plans;\n(ii) to give expert advice on administrative, financial and technical matters;\n(iii) to advise the Board on matters pertaining to the interests of consumers and issues affecting the environment;\n(iv) to advise the Board on any other matter regarding which the Board seeks its advice.\n(i) all members of the Board, ex-officio;\n(ii) two members of the Legislative Assembly of the National Capital Territory of Delhi to be nominated-by the Speaker;\n(iii) two members of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to be nominated by the Mayor;\n(iv) one expert in environmental and ecological matters to be nominated by the Government;\n(v) two experts in water management to be nominated by the Government;\n(vi) two persons representing consumer interests to be nominated by the Government;\n(vii) one member representing the employees to be nominated by the Government;\n(viii) one member from the New Delhi Municipal Council out of the non-official members.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "CHAPTER III",
            "chapter": "CHAPTER III",
            "content": "Power And Functions Of The Board",
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        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Functions of the Board.",
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            "content": "(a) Treat, supply and distribute water for household consumption or other purposes to those parts of Delhi where, there are houses, whether through pipes or by other means:\nProvided that this clause shall not be construed to require the Board to do anything which is not in the opinion of the Board practicable at a reasonable cost, or to provide water supply to any premises which have been constructed in contravention of any law or in which adequate arrangement for internal water supply, including internal storage, as may be required by the Board, does not exist;\n(b) Plan for, regulate and manage the exploitation of ground water in Delhi in consultation with Central Ground Water Authority and also give advice in this regard to the New Delhi Municipal Council, the Delhi Cantonment Board or any other local authority.\nProvided that the Board shall not licence and levy user charges for exploitation of ground water in any area for the time being falling within the jurisdiction of the New Delhi Municipal Council, the Delhi Cantonment Board or any other local authority, except with the prior approval of the Central Government.\n(c) Promote measures for conservation, recycling and reuse of water.\n(d) If so directed by the Government or the Central Government take over and carry out any functions relating to the management and regulation of sewerage and ground water or the drains of any area, hitherto being carried out by the Government, the Delhi Development Authority or any other agency:\nProvided that the Board shall, as far as may be, take over the management of all drains fed wholly or in part by drains under the management of the Board.\n(e) Collect, treat and dispose of sewerage from any part of Delhi and carry out works connected with sewerage, sewage treatment and sewage disposal, including the planning design, construction, operation and maintenance of work relating thereto:\nProvided that, unless otherwise directed by the Central Government, the Board shall collector sewage only in bulk from the areas falling within the jurisdiction of New Delhi Municipal Council and the Delhi Cantonment Board, Military Engineering Services.\n(f) Take up or promote any other measure necessary for or ancillary to the functions of the Board laid down under this Act, including negotiation with other Boards or similar authorities, or the Central or any State Government, and entering into agreements with them or the formulation and implementation of scheme, oe research and development works.\n(g) Make provision for unfiltered water supply.",
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        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Water supplied for domestic purpose not to be used for non-domestic purposes.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Supply of water for domestic purposes not to include any supplies for specified purposes.",
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            "content": "(a) for animals or for washing vehicles, where such animals or vehicles are kept for sale or hire;\n(b) for any trade, manufacture or business;\n(c) for fountains, swimming, baths or any ornamental or mechanical purposes;\n(d) for gardens or for purposes of irrigation of for watering streets;\n(e) for any construction work of any kind.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Power to supply water for non-domestic purposes.",
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            "sort_order": 13
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        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Power to require water supply to be taken and power not to allow occupation of a new premises without arrangement for water supply.",
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            "content": "(a) to take a connection adequate for the persons occupying or employed in the premises, or to take such additional or enlarged connection or connections from the water works;\n(b) to provide supply pipes and water fittings, install and work a pump and do all such works and take all such measures as may, in the opinion of the Board, be necessary for the above purposes.\n(a) the size material and quality of the pipes and water fittings to be provided;\n(d) the position of the pipes and water fittings to be provided and the means of access for the inspection thereof;\n(c) the type of pump that should be installed and the hours during which it should be kept working;\n(d) the period within which any or all the works specified in the notice should be carried out;\n(e) any other requirement which the Board may deem necessary.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Power to lay mains, sewers, pipes or drains.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 15
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Power to require water supply to be taken and to require maintenance of service pipe.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 16
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Provision of fire hydrants.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Power of Board to provide meters.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 18
        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Power to cut off or turn off water supply.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Prohibition of waste or misuse of water or installation of booster pumps.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Power to enter premises to detect waste or misuse of water and to restrict use of water from polluted source of supply.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Power to require every premises to have separate water connection and service pipe.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 22
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Power of the Board to delegate its power to an officer of the Board.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 23
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Power to restrict or prohibit use of water.",
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            "content": "(a) by public notice, restrict in any manner or prohibit for any period, as may be specified in the notice, the sale of water for human consumption as specified in the notice;\n(b) without notice and at any time inspect and disinfect any well, tank, public hydrant or other place from which water is or is likely to be taken for the purpose of drinking.",
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            "sort_order": 24
        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Power to control use of water from wells, tanks, public hydrants etc.",
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            "content": "(a) require the owner or person having control of such well, tank, hydrant or place to take such steps as the Board may consider necessary to prevent the public from having access to or use of such water;\n(b) take such other steps as the board may consider expedient to prevent the out-break of such diseases.",
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            "sort_order": 25
        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Power of owner of premises to place pipes and drains through land belonging to other persons.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 26
        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Power to execute works.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 27
        },
        {
            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Power to erect ventilating shaft.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 28
        },
        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Power to examine private drains and cess pools.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 29
        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Specifying of places for the emptying of drains and disposal of sewage.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 30
        },
        {
            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Rights of user of property for aquaducts mains, drains etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Drainage and Sewerage",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 31
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Public drains to vest in the Board.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 32
        },
        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. Permission to connect private drain with public drain.",
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            "content": "(a) to discharge any industrial effluent into any public drain except in accordance with regulations made in this behalf, which may include provision for treatment of such efficient before its discharge into such drain; or\n(b) to discharge into the drain any substance the discharge of which is prohibited under any law; or\n(c) to discharge foul water into a drain provided for surface water or surface water into a sewer unless expressly permitted by the Board is a purely temporary measure.",
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            "sort_order": 33
        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Drainage of undrained premises.",
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            "content": "(a) to provide and set up all such appliances and fittings as may appear to the Board to be necessary for the purposes of gathering and receiving polluting and other obnoxious matter and conveying it from the premises;\n(b) to provide and set up all such appliances and fittings as may appear to the Board to be necessary to prevent waste water from being discharged into the street.\n(a) to make a drain emptying into such public drain or place;\n(b) to remove, cover, augment, replace or re-model any existing drain emptying into such public drain or place, or other appliance or thing used or intended to be used for drainage in relation to such existing drain, if such existing drain or appliance or thing is inadequate, insufficient, faulty or injurious to health.\n(a) to construct a drain upto the point to be prescribed in such notice, which is not more than 30 mtrs. from any part of the premises; or (b) to construct a closed cesspool or soakage pit and drain or drains emptying into such cesspool or soakage pit.",
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            "sort_order": 34
        },
        {
            "number": "34",
            "title": "34. New premises not to be ettrected/occupied without drainage.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 35
        },
        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. Work to be done by licensed plumber.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the exercise of adequate control on all licensed plumbers;\n(b) the inspection of all works carried out by licensed plumbers; and (c) the hearing and disposal of complaints made by the owners or occupiers of premises with regard to the quality of work done, material used, delay in execution of work, or the charges made, by a licensed plumber.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 36
        },
        {
            "number": "38",
            "title": "CHAPTER IV",
            "chapter": "CHAPTER IV",
            "content": "Special Provisions Relating To New Delhi Municipal Council And Delhi Cantonment Board, Military Engineering Services",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 37
        },
        {
            "number": "36",
            "title": "36. Bulk water supply to New Delhi Municipal Council and Delhi Cantonment Board, Military Engineering Services.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 38
        },
        {
            "number": "37",
            "title": "37. New Delhi Municipal Council, Delhi Cantonment Board, Military Engineering Services to pay actual cost of water supplied(1).",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 39
        },
        {
            "number": "38",
            "title": "38. Provisional collecting rate.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 40
        },
        {
            "number": "39",
            "title": "39. Final settlement of accounts.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 41
        },
        {
            "number": "40",
            "title": "40. Fixing of metres(1).",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 42
        },
        {
            "number": "41",
            "title": "41. Testing of Meters.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 43
        },
        {
            "number": "42",
            "title": "42. Disposal of sewage of the New Delhi Municipal Council and the Delhi Cantonment Board, Military Engineering Services in bulk.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 44
        },
        {
            "number": "43",
            "title": "43. New Delhi Municipal Council and Delhi Cantonment Board, Military Engineering Services to pay cost of disposal of sewage.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 45
        },
        {
            "number": "44",
            "title": "44. Manner of payment by New Delhi Municipal Council and Delhi Cantonment Board, Military Engineering Services.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 46
        },
        {
            "number": "45",
            "title": "45. Disputes as to the liability for payment to or by the Board.",
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            "number": "49",
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            "number": "46",
            "title": "46. Transfer of assets, liabilities and services.",
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            "content": "(a) The water supply and sewage disposal account of the Municipal Fund constituted under the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957 and all properties, assets and liabilities under the control of the Delhi Water Supply and Sewage Disposal Undertaking immediately before such date shall vest in the Board;\n(b) All properties, assets and liabilities relating to sewerage under the control of the Municipal Corporation immediately before such date, shall vest in the Board;\n(c) All officers and employees of the Delhi Water Supply and Sewerage Disposal Undertaking and all such employees of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi who are engaged mainly in connection with water supply or sewerage disposal shall become employees of the Board with such designation and discharging such functions as the Board may determine and they shall hold office for the same tenure, and at the same remuneration and on the same terms and conditions, as they would have held if the Board, had not been established and shall continue to do so until such tenure and remuneration and terms and conditions are duly altered by the Board:\n(d) Every employee whose services are transferred under clause (c) of sub-section (1) and who is in lawful occupation of any residential accommodation allotted to him by virtue of his employment, shall, subject to such condition as may be fixed by the Board, be entitled to continue such occupation.",
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            "number": "47",
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            "number": "48",
            "title": "48. Ban on compensation claim due to transfer of service to the Board.",
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            "number": "49",
            "title": "49. All notifications, orders, bye-laws, etc issued prior to formation of Board to continue in force.",
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            "number": "50",
            "title": "50. Utilities laid prior to formation of Board to vest in the Board.",
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            "number": "55",
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            "number": "51",
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            "number": "52",
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            "number": "53",
            "title": "53. Consultation with Union Public Service Commission.",
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            "content": "(a) in a temporary capacity for a period not exceeding one year;\n(b) to a post when at the time of such appointment a person to be appointed thereto possess the qualifications prescribed for such post and is in the service of the Central Government or of the Government in the same or a higher scale of pay.",
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            "number": "54",
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            "content": "(a) the procedure to be followed by the Commission in advertising posts, inviting applications, scrutinising the same and selecting candidates for interview;\n(b) the procedure to be followed by the Commission for selecting candidates for appointment and by the Board for consultation with the Commission;\n(c) any other matter, which is incidental to, or necessary for, the purpose of consultation with the Commission.",
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            "number": "60",
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            "number": "55",
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            "number": "56",
            "title": "56. Contributions by the Government.",
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            "number": "57",
            "title": "57. Constitution of the Water Fund.",
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            "content": "(a) all funds which immediately before the establishment of the Board vested in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi under the Water Supply and Sewage Disposal account, established under section 99 of the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957, and\n(b) all money received by or on behalf of the Board shall form one fund to be titled the Delhi Water Board Fund hereinafter called at as the \"Water Fund\".",
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            "number": "58",
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            "content": "(a) the water supply account relating to all money received by or on behalf of the Board in respect of water;\n(b) the drainage account relating to all money received by or on behalf of the Board in respect of drainage and sewerage;\n(c) the general account relating to all other money received by or on behalf of the Board including money not attributable exclusively to either account specified in clause (a) or clause (b).",
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            "number": "59",
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            "number": "60",
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            "number": "61",
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            "content": "(a) refund to any person of moneys rightfully due to him; (b) sums payable in any of the following circumstances\n(i) under orders of the Government or by the Central Government, on failure of the Board to take any action as required by such orders;\n(ii) under any other enactment by the Board;\n(iii) under degree or orders of a civil or criminal court;\n(iv) under a compromise of any claim, suit or other legal proceedings;\n(v) on account of costs incurred in taking immediate action to avert the outbreak of disease or any danger to human life or to the property of the Board.",
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            "number": "62",
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            "number": "63",
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            "number": "64",
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            "number": "65",
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            "number": "66",
            "title": "66. Power to write off irrecoverable amounts.",
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            "number": "67",
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            "number": "68",
            "title": "68. Notice of demand and notice fee.",
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            "number": "69",
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            "number": "70",
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            "number": "77",
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            "number": "71",
            "title": "71. Production of records.",
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            "content": "(a) to produce any record, correspondence or other document in the possession of the Board;\n(b) to furnish any report, return, plan, estimate, statement of accounts or . statistics relating to the functions of the Board.",
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            "number": "72",
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            "number": "73",
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            "number": "81",
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            "number": "74",
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            "number": "75",
            "title": "75. Contracts by the Board.",
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            "number": "76",
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            "number": "77",
            "title": "77. Joint and several liability of owners and occupiers of offences in relation to water supply.",
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            "number": "78",
            "title": "78. Licences neither saleable nor transferable.",
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            "number": "79",
            "title": "79. Certain matters not to be passed into Municipal drains.",
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            "content": "(a) solid water or any matter likely to injure the drain or sewer or to interfere with the free flow of its contents or to affect prejudicially the treatment and disposal of its contents;\n(b) any chemical refuse, industrial effluent or waste steam, or any liquid at a temperature higher than forty-five degree centigrade, or any liquid which is dangerous or the cause of a nuisance or is prejudicial to health;\n(c) any industrial effluent except with the express permission of the Board after such treatment as any be required by the Board;\n(d) any dangerous petroleum or any explosive matter.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "80",
            "title": "80. Prohibition of certain Acts.",
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            "content": "(a) wilfully obstruct any member of the Board or any person acting under the authority of the Board in the performance of his duties; (b) wilfully or negligently break, injure or tamper in any manner with any installation, pipe, drain, fitting or apparatus belonging to the Board;\n(c) wilfully or negligently obstruct or hinder the flow of or flush, draw off or divert the flow of water or sewerage in any water course, pipe, drain or sewer;\n(d) do any act likely to foul or pollute the water in any water works or drain.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "81",
            "title": "81. No construction or development over any sewer, supply pipe or installation etc without permission.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "82",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "83",
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            "number": "84",
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            "number": "85",
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            "number": "86",
            "title": "86. Compensation to be paid by offenders for damage caused by them.",
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            "number": "87",
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            "number": "88",
            "title": "88. Distraint.",
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            "content": "(a) the following property shall not be distrained\n(i) the necessary wearing apparel and bedding of the defaulter, his wife and children and their cooking and eating utensils;\n(ii) tools of artisans; (iii) books of account; or\n(iv) when the defaulter is an agriculturist, his implements of husbandry, seed, grain and such cattle as may be necessary enable the defaulter to earn his livelihood.\n(b) the distress shall not be excessive, that is to say, the property distrained shall be as nearly as possible equal in value to the amount recoverable under the warrant, and if any property has been destrained which, in the opinion of the Board, should not have been distrained, it shall forthwith be released.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "89",
            "title": "89. Disposal of distrained property and attachment and sale of immovable property.",
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            "number": "90",
            "title": "90. Recovery from a person about to leave Delhi.",
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            "number": "91",
            "title": "91. Offences and Penalties.",
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            "content": "(a) contravenes any provision of any of sub-sections or sections of this Act mentioned in the column 1 of the Table in the Fourth Schedule;\nor (b) fails to comply with any order or direction lawfully given to him or requisition law fully made upon him under any of the sections, sub-sections, clauses, provisos and other provisions, shall be punishable\n(i) with fine which may extend to the amount or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to the period, specified in column 3 of the said Table or with both, and\n(ii) in the case of a continuing contravention or failure, with an additional fine which may extend to the amount specified in column 4 of the Table for every day during which such contravention or failure continues after conviction for the first such contravention or failure.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "92",
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            "number": "93",
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            "number": "94",
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            "content": "(a) the name and address of such person are unknown to him and; (b) such person on demand declines to give his name and address or gives a name and address which such officer has reason to believe to be false.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "95",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "96",
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            "number": "97",
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            "number": "98",
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            "number": "99",
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            "number": "100",
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            "number": "101",
            "title": "101. Connection with water works and drains not to be made without permission.",
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            "number": "102",
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            "number": "103",
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            "number": "104",
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            "number": "105",
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            "number": "106",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "107",
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            "number": "108",
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            "number": "109",
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            "number": "110",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "Section 10, Sub-Section (1)",
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            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "13",
            "title": "Section 13, Sub-Section (1)",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "13",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "15",
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            "number": "19",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "19",
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            "number": "19",
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            "footnote": "",
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            "number": "20",
            "title": "Section 20, Sub-Section (1)",
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            "content": "Denying permission to enter the premises to inspect\n\t\t\t\twater/sewer line\n1000\n200",
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            "number": "20",
            "title": "Section 20, Sub-Section (3)",
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            "content": "Construction of latrines/septic tanks in a position where\n\t\t\t\tpipes may be injured or water therein polluted\n2000\n100",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "24",
            "title": "Section 24",
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            "content": "Failure to comply with requisition to render wells, public\n\t\t\t\thydrants etc. safe\n1000\n100",
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            "number": "32",
            "title": "Section 32",
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            "content": "Private drains not to be connected with public drain without\n\t\t\t\tnotice\n1000\n200",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "32",
            "title": "Section 32, proviso (a)",
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            "content": "Non-compliance with direction to limit the discharge from\n\t\t\t\tprivate drains into certain areas\n1000\n100",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 129
        },
        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "Section 32, proviso (c)",
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            "content": "Non-compliance with requisition for keeping sewage and rain\n\t\t\t\twater drains distinct\n1000",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "Section 33, Sub-Section (1)",
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            "content": "Non-compliance with requisition for drainage of undrained\n\t\t\t\tpremises\n500\n200",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "Section 33, Sub-Section (2)(b)",
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            "content": "Non-compliance with requisition to close remove or divert a\n\t\t\t\tpipe or drain\n500\n100",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "34",
            "title": "Section 34, Sub-Section (1)",
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            "content": "Erection/ occupation of new premises without drains\n10,000\n-",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "34",
            "title": "Section 34, Sub-Section (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Non-compliance with requisition of maintenance of drainage\n\t\t\t\tworks for any group or block of premises\n1000\n100",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
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            "number": "35",
            "title": "Section 35, Sub-Section (3)",
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            "content": "Execution of work by a person other than a licensed plumber\n2000\n-",
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        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "Section 35, Sub-Section (3)(e)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Licensed plumbers not to demand more than the charges\n\t\t\t\tprescribed\n1000\n-",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "Section 35, Sub-Section (4)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Licensed plumbers not to contravence bye-laws or execute work\n\t\t\t\tcarelessly of negligently etc.\n1000\n-",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 137
        },
        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "Section 35, Sub-Section (5)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to furnish when required, name of licensed plumber\n\t\t\t\temployed\n1000\n-",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 138
        },
        {
            "number": "76",
            "title": "Section 76, Sub-Section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Failure to give notice of intention to erect a building\n5000\n100",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 139
        },
        {
            "number": "79",
            "title": "Section 79, Sub-Section (3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Allowing filth & garbage to flow in drains\n5000\n100",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 140
        },
        {
            "number": "80",
            "title": "Section 80, clause (a)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Preventing the Board - or any person authorised in this behalf\n\t\t\t\tfrom exercising his powers of entry etc.\n1000\n-",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 141
        },
        {
            "number": "80",
            "title": "Section 80, clause (b)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Injury to, or interference with free flow of contents of\n\t\t\t\tpublic drain or drains communicating with public drain\n2000\n100",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 142
        },
        {
            "number": "80",
            "title": "Section 80, clause (c)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) Un-authorised tampering with water mains\n(a) 500(Domestic use)\n200\n(b) 1000(Non-domestic\n200\n(c) 2000(Industrial use)\n200\n(d) 5000(Ice Factories)\n200\n(ii) For making unauthorised sewer connection\n(a) 200(Domestic)\n-\n(b) 1000(Non-domestic)\n200\n(c) 5000(Industrial)\n500\n(iii) For unauthorised connection with sewer drain\n1000",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 143
        },
        {
            "number": "81",
            "title": "Section 81, Sub-Section (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Non-removal of unauthorised encroachment over Board's water\n\t\t\t\tline/sewer line/ drainage works\n2000\n100",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 144
        },
        {
            "number": "84",
            "title": "Section 84",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Obstruction of services provided by Board\n1000\n100",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 145
        },
        {
            "number": "101",
            "title": "Section 101",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Connection with water works or drains without written\n\t\t\t\tpermission\n2000\n100",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 146
        },
        {
            "number": "107",
            "title": "Section 107",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Obstruction or molestation in execution of works\n5000\n100",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 147
        }
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "dl016",
        "Act Number": "Delhi Act 4 of 1998",
        "Enactment Date": "2nd April, 1998",
        "Act Year": "1998",
        "Short Title": "The Delhi Water Board Act, 1998",
        "Type": "UNION_TERRITORY",
        "Location": "Delhi"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:22"
}